The Mont-Blanc Project: First Phase Successfully Finished

TL;DR

The Mont-Blanc project aimed to develop energy-efficient Exascale computing systems using embedded technology, successfully building a prototype, designing next-generation systems, and porting applications during its first phase.

Contribution

This paper reports on the first phase of the Mont-Blanc project, showcasing the development of an energy-efficient HPC prototype and application porting efforts.

Findings

Successful development of an energy-efficient HPC prototype

Design of a next-generation Exascale system

Porting of representative Exascale applications

Abstract

Running from October 2011 to June 2015, the aim of the European project Mont-Blanc has been to develop an approach to Exascale computing based on embedded power-efficient technology. The main goals of the project were to i) build an HPC prototype using currently available energy-efficient embedded technology, ii) design a Next Generation system to overcome the limitations of the built prototype and iii) port a set of representative Exascale applications to the system. This article summarises the contributions from the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and the Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany, to the Mont-Blanc project.